By Toby Fox tobyfox Bandcamp tobyfox Twitter toby.fangamer.com Other fwugradiation Tumblr.
Cover art by vorpos vorpos Tumblr.
Released 3/14/2011.
Art released 10/25/2017.
Duration: 2:07.

Listen on Bandcamp or YouTube.

Download sheet music files.
Download MIDI/project files.
Read artist commentary.

Also released as:

• (20219/13/2021; about 10 years, 6 months later) Darling Kanaya (Pesterquest Soundtrack)

Tracks that Darling Kanaya references:

• Virgin Orb by Toby Fox

Tracks that reference Darling Kanaya:

From Official Discography:

• Lilith in Starlight by Malcolm Brown

From Fandom:

• The Ascended Twilight Fangirl (draft version) by cookiefonster
• Fighter Kanaya (full version) by Nicholas Nakano
• Emerald Waltz by Willow Ascenzo
• Bleat Like a Goat Mom by cookiefonster
• Fight For the Future by Rainy
• Spacetime Continuum by apatheticPianist and Pascal van den Bos
• 'Til Death, We Grieve by Tee-vee
• Troll Fashion by bb-panzu
• Run-Stab-Run by Yoshifan33

From Additional Tracks:

• Darling Dolorosa by Toby Fox

Tracks that sample Darling Kanaya:

From Fandom:

• The Allure of Duo-Chrome Jade & Black Lipstick by Thyme and nxac.cd

Flashes & games that feature Darling Kanaya:

• [S] Kanaya: Return to the core.
• Skip to The Trolls (as Darling Kanaya)

Print or download sheet music files:

• Piano score by Dudemaster47

  • Darling Kanaya - Dudemaster47 (piano score).pdf (47 kB)

Download MIDI/project files:

• MIDI by IronInvoker47 (piano)

  • Darling Kanaya - IronInvoker47 (piano).mid (6.5 kB)
• MIDI by Unknown

  • Darling Kanaya - Unknown (piano).mid (4.4 kB)

Artist commentary:

Toby Fox: (booklet commentary)

(Kanaya Walkabout)

I didn't call it "Kanaya's Theme" because I didn't think that it was stylish enough for her. I originally wrote it as the theme just for walking around her house, but I think it turned out to fit her really well as a character despite my own doubts.

Like Terezi's theme, "Darling Kanaya" isn't a remix of her Alternia track (Virgin Orb), but it contains some similar stuff. There are heavily vibrato'd strings... wavering, luscious 7th chords... melodic piano... lots of arpeggios... and a general uplifting feeling of satisfying, calm emotion. She is one of the very few characters in Hivebent that I would categorize as "sane" by human standards, and thus actually one of my favorite trolls. And despite the semi-low quality of the instrumentation, this is one of my favorite tracks by myself.

It's all kind of ghostly and heartfelt, like a sad look out the window with a romance novel in your lap, and then a knowing, welcoming smile. I think that makes sense considering she's an undead vampire now! Or not.

Homestuck: (original track art)

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